# Great quotes... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047 "2001-01-08T20:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/41 "2001-01-10T02:01:05Z")
“…that’s what high school’s all about - algebra, bad lunch, and infidelity.” ~Clerks see sig line 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/42 "2001-01-10T02:12:10Z")
"There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; " AND “Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” AND “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.” AND “We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown.” From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/43 "2001-01-10T02:14:25Z")
“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.” “The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.” “I’m only civil because I don’t know any swear words.” “People pay more attention to you when you think you’re up to something.” ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/44 "2001-01-10T02:48:33Z")
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. -Albert Schweitzer The great are only great because we are on our knees. -Proudhon I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves. -August Strindberg 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@Lost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lost)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/45 "2001-01-10T04:24:19Z")
I was just comtemplating this one tonight: “Fear is a mind killer…” I wish I had the book, I believe the line is longer and porbably worth quoting, but I don’t have it here with me. Anyone want to fill it in? Frank Herbert - Dune ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/46 "2001-01-10T06:07:05Z")
source unknown “There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is obviously false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/47 "2001-01-10T08:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lost \* > \*\*I was just comtemplating this one tonight: > > “Fear is a mind killer…” > > I wish I had the book, I believe the line is longer and porbably worth quoting, but I don’t have it here with me. Anyone want to fill it in? > > Frank Herbert - Dune > > \*\* > [@](#): > > \*"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. > > Only I will remain."\* > > — Frank Herbert, “Dune” ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/48 "2001-01-10T10:10:33Z")
quotes of me and my friends –\> [http://www.horus.com/~steff/quotes.html](http://www.horus.com/~steff/quotes.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/49 "2001-01-10T10:57:19Z")
My two favourite quotes of all time were both said by Winston Churchill. Im pretty sure one of them was with Lady Astor: 1 Woman: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Churchill: Madam, if ou were my wife, I would drink it. 2 Woman: Winston you are drunk, terriby drunk. Churchill: Madam you are ugly, terribly ugly, but in the morning I shall be sober. ---
**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/50 "2001-01-10T12:34:46Z")
I have my whole collection of stuff like this [here](http://www.stormloader.com/dynowski/quotes.html) Now if I could ever get around to getting the rest of the quotes I have marked in books around my apartment typed in… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/51 "2001-01-10T15:50:51Z")
Another favorite quote just wandered across my mind–nothing profound, just a line from the Gargoyles cartoon that tickled me: “Madame, in the Middle Ages, they _burned_ women like you!” –Macbeth to the bitchy DA on live TV, in a Connery-like Scottish accent Someday, I’m going to use that sucker and get slapped right out of my socks. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/52 "2001-01-10T16:22:02Z")
“Hell is just other people.” Jean-Paul Sartre in his Play “No Exit.” Which is a damned good play. Another favorite quote “Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” Oscar Wilde’s last words. Or, from my Undergrad days (when I was a philosophy major): “Life is hard, but do not pretend to be so delicate.” Nietzsche ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/53 "2001-01-10T16:29:23Z")
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO [sub](sorry, couldn’t help myself)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/54 "2001-01-10T20:36:08Z")
Love is a snowmobile speeding across the frozen arctic tundra, when suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -Matt Groening People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. --David H. Comins (Comins’ Law) No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to unchartered land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch. -Gilda Radner This is a revolution, dammit! We’re going to have to offend SOMEbody! - “1776”, John Adams We agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule: That we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are One. --G’Kar, “The Paragon of Animals” [Babylon 5] ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/55 "2001-01-10T21:05:09Z")
All of these are from my friend Sean, who is trying to kill himself, and I’m the only one that seems to care: “Someday, I’m going to compile a top ten list of things I say…” “What’s gonna happen is, I’m going to lose a lot of weight, and then she’s going to come in and say, ‘Hey guys, meet my new boyfriend, horrible gelatinous blob.’ Never fails.” After not leaving his [seans] apartment for a week, and acting really antisocial, my other friend says to Sean, “You’ve gone nuts dude!” Sean replies to this, “Better get out the Elephant tranquilzer…” My friend is confused. “Alright, why an Elephant tranqulizer?” And in a tiny voice, Sean says “because i’ve gone crazy, and nothing else can stop me, due to my immense size…” “Alright, you remember ‘Hanging With Mr. Cooper?’? Well, THIS is ‘Hanging With ALICE Cooper.’” “Oh god, my life is just Stereotype after Stereotype!” ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/56 "2001-01-10T21:26:02Z")
Some o’ my favorites: “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realize how seldom they do.” (Very useful for building up courage before doing something potentially embarassing) “Just do it.” --Nike (Ditto) “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” --Yoda “The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” --Isaac Asimov (Or was it Heinlein?) “Be excellent to each other and party on.” --Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (An excellent way of life) ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/57 "2001-01-10T23:33:01Z")
“Come hither. Trust me, it is shorter than you think. - Maintenance.” On a urinal "Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. " Sun Tzu - the Art of War ---
**Author:** ![Cumber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/58 "2001-01-10T23:48:14Z")
People who want to know what the point of life is have missed it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/59 "2001-01-10T23:48:32Z")
“The mark of a truly great mind isn’t whether you’re right or wrong. It’s how well you can weasel out of a jam.” – Cecil Adams “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” --W.S. Churchill, Oct 1941 “Heav’n has no rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a fury, like a Woman scorn’d.” – William Congreve, from his play The Mourning Bride (1697) “Please recall from the Late Unpleasantness that the statement “I feel more passionately about this than you do” may be a fact, but it is not an argument.” – Molly Ivins, Nov. 27, 2000 in [http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm](http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm). “Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.” – Jane Austen in Mansfield Park “See no evil, Hear no evil, Date no evil.” – Prudie’s dictum “It is enough to be sure of the deed. Our courteous Lord will deign to redeem the motive.” – St. Julian of Norwich “A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Give prudent consideration to the size of this product before swallowing.” – the sticker on a bottle of vitamins ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-quotes/49047/60 "2001-01-11T01:05:10Z")
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